Chapter 99 - Ancient Mysterious Ginseng (1/2)

Under Bai Heng’s lead, Qin Nan arrived at the Treasure Vault.

Before them stood a marvelous palace, covering an area of few miles squared. It had a luxurious feeling to it, which formed an obvious contrast with the ancient looking Skill Library.

The entrance to the Treasure Vault was flooded with endless people, causing the place to be lively.

Bai Heng handed Qin Nan a badge and said, “This is your outer disciple badge. You have to register yourself before entering the Treasure Vault. Keep in mind that outer disciples are only allowed to enter the first floor. Inner disciples are allowed to enter the second and third floors. As for the fourth floor, it’s said to be open only to the core disciples.”

Qin Nan received the badge, and saw the word ‘five’ carved on it. Despite that, he did not question it; after registering together with Bai Heng, they both entered the first floor of the Treasure Vault.

After stepping into the first floor, Qin Nan’s face was filled with a surprised expression.

The hall was fully crowded with people; not only there were stalls set up by the disciples, there were also shops around selling all sorts of weapons and rare materials, as if one had just entered a treasure city.

“I never know that the disciples were allowed to set up stalls and sell stuff here on the first floor of the Treasure Vault.”

Qin Nan thought to himself, as he glanced toward one of the stalls.

The owner of the stall was an eighth-layer Body Tempering Realm disciple, whose heart skipped a beat after seeing the auras from Qin Nan and Bai Heng. He quickly let out a smile and said, “Two Misters, have a look around. These treasures were collected from the ancient ruins, I guarantee they are worth every pill…”

Qin Nan did not focus on him, but secretly unleashed his Eyes of the Divine Battle Spirit and scanned every piece of treasure on the stall, to see if there was anything extraordinary.

Qin Nan remained expressionless as he withdrew his Eyes of the Divine Battle Spirit, and went toward the other stalls.

In the midst of window shopping, Qin Nan continued to scan around with his Eyes of the Divine Battle Spirit, which caused him to be quite surprised, “What a treasure vault, the ancient sword there possesses a strong force within it; quite a nice weapon, but it’s too pricey. Not to mention that bronze mirror in that shop, which possesses some secrets, and it might be linked to something else…”

Qin Nan then shook his head. Despite the fact that his Eyes of the Divine Battle Spirit were able to see through the treasures, most of them were too expensive, causing him to lose interest.

“Even though with my Scarlet-Fanged Purple Dragon Badge, I’m allowed to enter the third, or even the fourth floor, but it seems like there’s no need for that.”

A thought came to Qin Nan’s mind. Although there were lots of treasures here, they were all too expensive. He planned to use his Martial Emperor Pills to level up his Divine Battle Spirit, thus he was unwilling to spend any of them here.

Meanwhile, Qin Nan halted in his track out of a sudden, as his eyes flickered, “Hmm?”

The owner of the stall was an outer disciple wearing a black robe, whose cultivation had reached the tenth-layer Body Tempering Realm. When he saw Qin Nan and Bai Heng approaching, he said with a calm tone, “You can observe it, but no touching.”

Qin Nan nodded his head, as he crouched down and inspected the weird object before him carefully.

It was a stalk of ginseng, but not just an ordinary one. It was totally black in color, with a few rotting spots, as if it was no longer useful.

However, with the Eyes of the Divine Battle Spirit, Qin Nan was able to detect a mysterious force enclosed within it, and he could even feel a scarce sense of something alive floating in it.

Even with Qin Nan’s knowledge, he could not interpret what kind of force it was; he could only tell that it was extremely powerful.

“I’ll buy this ginseng.” Qin Nan was slightly interested, as he rose up and said.

The man in black robe glimpsed at him and said, “One thousand Xiantian Pills.”

“One thousand Xiantian Pills?” Bai Heng was shocked at the words, “This ginseng is obviously rotting, and you dare to sell it at a price of one thousand Xiantian Pills? Are you robbing us?”

The man replied in a cold tone, “Whatever you say.”

“One thousand Xiantian Pills is it? I’ll give you ten Martial Emperor Pills.”

Even though Qin Nan was unwilling, he knew that the ginseng was nothing ordinary through his observation, thus he did not hesitate at all.

“Hmm.” The man received the Martial Emperor Pills, as his tone softened and said, “It’s yours now.”